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    Does anyone enjoy shooting slingshots?

    I have had a Wrist Rocket since I was a kid, with larger surgical rubber on it since at least the 70s. It works excellent on Pits in the yard now that I live in town and can't shoot em. Dad made my first one using a forked branch and natural rubber innertube strips when I was about 5
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    Anyone see hummingbirds yet?

    SW Idaho yes we have hummers now
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    I didn't know there are both Ruger Forums dot COM and a dot NET

    There is at least three Ruger forums https://www.rugersociety.com/forums/
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    Oh, Hell. The dreaded halftime fiasco.

    We just turned the TV off for 1/2 hour and did other things
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    Another handgun reloading question....

    With me it was a bulge like the OP stated, loading plated bullets, it wasn't many but at least one would not chamber, all were put thru a Lee FCD, all chambered and fired.
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    Another handgun reloading question....

    Use a Lee factory crimp die
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    California Proposes Ban on Chrome Plating

    Truckloads of rims on freeway 10 in SoCal in the1970's were seen regularly. Black rims toward Mexicali, chrome rims returning, toward LA My understanding is that this was caused by new CA laws or regulations on chrome shops Rumor was Mexicali waste ran back into the states via the New...
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    Very interesting. Walmart to charge for shopping carts.

    This came from Tic Tok and is just another false internet rumor
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    Am I the only one who likes Buck Knives?

    Go over to the the Buck threads at blade forums, there are many collector members and one of the Buck family members sometimes posts there. The odds are high someone will know about your knives. https://www.bladeforums.com/forums/buck-knives.701/
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    Am I the only one who likes Buck Knives?

    I have a 110 that's cleaned several elk, antelope, steelhead, dozens of deer, and no telling what else. It's a older knife when Buck still used 440C steel. One morning that knife was used to gut and split the brisket on two antlerless elk and it would still shave my arm...
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    Fentanyal vs Gun Deaths in 2021

    Misinformation given to the ignorant controls the masses with gun control and many other issues A quick search shows about 110K overdose deaths and under 50K gun deaths in 2022, including suicide, about 20K non suicide https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm...
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    On Pocketknives...............

    If I am dressed there is a 3 blade stockman in my pocket and has been since I was about 12 or younger. Now that I am older and have survived an attack by a Pitt Bull there is also a light longer blade, easy open clip-on always with me too
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    How It's Made - Wine Corks - Harvesting 50 Million Corks

    I enjoyed that, as kids, we discovered the oak trees growing along a drive next to the playground where I went to grade school in the 1950s had cork bark. Google Earth shows they are still there
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    Amazon vs Walmart

    We use both, usually depending cost, one huge WM bonus is things can be returned in person to a Wal-Mart store. We have items being shipped from both as I write this
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    Does anyone enjoy shooting slingshots?

    Dad made me one with a forked stick and rubbers from a natural rubber innertube. about the time I was in Kindergarten Nowadays I have a Wrist Rocket with stronger surgical rubbers than it came with, Ammo is hand-picked from gravel.
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